CD Wright, I.J. Kapstein Professor of Literary Arts

Office Location: Room 201, 68 1/2 Brown St.

Phone: (401) 863-9405

Carolyn_Wright@Brown.edu

Fall 2008 course
LITR 1200 S02 Writers on Writing

Spring 2009 course
1230I S01 The Documentary Vision in Recent American Literarture

C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published over a dozen books, most recently Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Editions, 2007) and a text edition of One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) focused on Louisiana inmates. With photographer Deborah Luster, Wright won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for One Big Self from the Center for documentary Studies at Duke University. She has published several book-length poems including Deepstep Come Shining (Copper Canyon, 1998), and Just Whistle (Kelsey Street Press, 1993). Wright has composed and published two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her native state, and one for Rhode Island, her adopted state. Wright is former State Poet of Rhode Island and with poet Forrest Gander she edited Lost Roads Publishers for over twenty years.

Among her honors are the Lannan Literary Award as well as awards from the Wallace Foundation and from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2004 Wright was named a MacArthur Fellow; in 2005 she was given the Robert Creeley Award, and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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